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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

Peter Drucker

Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
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Attachment Business People
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay

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